WORKING
SEMINAR ON PHILOSOPHY
AS
TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICE
Elon
University
October
20-22, 2005
OVERVIEW
Note:
Participants who have not pre-registered should register between 9 and 9:30 am,
in Moseley 215.
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THURSDAY |
FRIDAY |
SATURDAY |
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9:30 – 11:30 am |
Opening: Where’s the Edge? (John Sullivan, facilitator) 8 am – Global (MF) 10:30 – Anti-Semitism (YL) |
Unusual Spaces: Teaching Children/Teaching Activism (Nim Batchelor, facilitator) |
Transforming Thinking (Yoram
Lubling, facilitator) |
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11:30 am – 2:00 pm |
12:20 – Critical Thinking (AW) 12:20 – Eastern (JS) 12:20 – Global (MF) Lunch (provided at the Philosophy House); free time. |
Lunch (provided at the Philosophy House); free time. |
Lunch (provided at the Philosophy House); free time. |
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2:00-4:00 pm |
Transformative Classroom Teaching (Ann Cahill, facilitator) |
Human/More than Human Relations
(Anthony Weston,
facilitator) |
Closing: Picking Up the Threads (Martin Fowler, facilitator) |
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4:00 – 7:00 pm |
Free time and dinner (on your own) |
Free time and dinner (on your own) |
Free time from 4-5:30 pm; followed by closing dinner at 5:30 pm, in
the Isabella Cannon Room |
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7:00 – 11:00 pm |
Concert:
Richard and John Contiguglia, duo pianists Whitley
Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. (tickets are $15, and can be purchased
at the box office prior to the performance; however, we will attempt to
acquire free tickets for seminar participants) |
Workshop: Shintaido (moving meditation),
provided by Nancy Mardas, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm,
Isabella Cannon Room (free) |
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Scheduled
classes are in italics; participants may be invited to visit these
classes. More details will be provided
at the seminar regarding these classes as well as activities available during
free time.
Details
on key discussions, Working Seminar on
Philosophy
as Transformative Practice
Thursday,
October 20
Title: Opening:
Where’s the Edge?
Day: Thursday,
October 20
Time: 9:30-11:30
am
Location: Moseley
215
Facilitator: John
Sullivan
Key Conversants: All!
Material to be used: None
Title: Transformative
Classroom Teaching
Day: Thursday,
October 20
Time: 2-4
pm
Location: Moseley
217
Facilitator: Ann
Cahill
Key Conversants: Nim Batchelor, Gitte Wernaa Butin, Terri Thomas Elliott, Eric
Hoffman, Jason Mallory, Nancy Mardas, Kimberley Woeste
Material to be used:
Batchelor: CV; “Mediation Training: One Approach to Philosophy as Transformative Practice”; Syllabus, “Ethical Practice”
Butin: CV;
“Teaching Itself;” Syllabus, “Crime and Punishment”
Elliott: CV
Hoffman: CV;
Syllabus, “Moral Philosophy”
Mallory: Syllabus,
“Medical and Bio-Ethics”
Mardas: CV;
“Toward an Ethics of the Chiasm;” Syllabus, “Philosophy of Silence”
Woeste: CV;
“Transformative Practice”
Friday,
October 21
Title: Unusual
Spaces: Teaching Children/Teaching Activism
Day: Friday,
October 21
Time: 9:30-11:30
am
Location: Isabella
Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Facilitator: Nim
Batchelor
Key Conversants: Dianne Connelly, Megan Laverty, Beth Raps
Material
to be used:
Connelly: CV; “Alive and Awake: Wisdom for Kids” (excerpt)
Laverty: CV; “Introduction: Philosophy for Children and/as
Philosophical Practice;” “Philosophical Dialogue and Ethics: Redefining the
Virtues;” “Evaluating Classroom Dialogue”
Raps: CV;
“Philosophy as Transformative Practice;” “Breathing While Black;” “Sustaining
Ignorance;” “A Moral Theory Must Lead to Action”
Title: Human/More
than Human Relations
Day: Friday,
October 21
Time: 2-4
pm
Location: The
Lodge
Facilitator: Anthony
Weston
Key Conversants: Ralph Acampora, , Lisa Kemmerer, Anne
Waters
Material
to be used:
Acampora: CV; “Reconstruction: Toward Transformation
of Animal Encounter”
Kemmerer: CV; “Teaching Eco-Justice through Just War Theory”
Waters: CV; Syllabus, “Global Indigenous
Philosophy;” Syllabus, “Environmental Ethics and Practice in Native America;”
“Indigenous Genocide;” “Global Indigenous Research Contexts for
Bio-Prospecting”
Saturday,
October 22
Title: Transforming
Thinking
Day: Saturday,
October 22
Time: 9:30-11:30
am
Location: Isabella
Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Facilitator: Yoram
Lubling
Key Conversants: Elizabeth
Minnich, Anthony Weston, Gary Pech
Material to be used:
Minnich: CV; “Transforming Knowledge” (Chapters 1 & 2)
Pech: CV;
“Philosophy and Conceptual Transformation”
Weston: CV;
“Philosophy’s Possibilities;” “What Now?” “What if Teaching Went Wild?” “The
New Deweyan Caucus”
Title: Closing:
Picking Up the Threads
Day: Saturday,
October 22
Time: 2-4
pm
Location: The
Lodge
Facilitator: Martin
Fowler
Key Conversants: All!
Material to be used: None